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SEE ALSO machinery |
| adm. pol. rouage {m} [d'État, d'administration] | machinery [of government] | |
Partial Matches |
| pol. régime {m} politique | polity [form of government] | |
| hist. mil. pol. Commune {f} de Paris [1871] | Paris Commune [1871] [after the Franco-Prussion War, soldiers of the National Guard seized control of the city and attempted to establish an independent government] | |
| fin. hist. mil. Négociants {m.pl} réunis [1799-1806] | [group of bankers who funded Napoleon's military government] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} de Quatre-Vingts Ans [1568-1648] [aussi : révolte des Pays-Bas] | Eighty Years' War [1568-1648] [also: Dutch Revolt] [armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between groups of rebels and the Spanish government] | |
| hist. Piste {f} des larmes | Trail of Tears [ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the US government] | |
| agr. outil. tech. matériel {m} agricole | farm machinery | |
| pol. machine {f} politique | political machinery | |
| pol. pieuvre {f} [fig.] [organisme] | machinery of power | |
| dr. hist. immo. Domesday Book {m} | Domesday Book [a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086] | |
| hist. mil. relig. bataille {f} du Champ du Sang [1119] [aussi : bataille de l'Ager Sanguinis] | Battle of the Field of Blood [1119] [also: Battle of Ager Sanguinis, Battle of Sarmada, or the Battle of Balat] [Crusader army annihilated by the army of the Artuqid ruler of Aleppo] | |
| pol. intérimaire {adj} [gouvernement] | caretaker [government] | |
| hist. mil. relig. ordre {m} de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem [ordre des Hospitaliers] | Knights Hospitaller [Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem] [Knights of Rhodes] [Knights of Malta] [Order of Saint John] | |
| hist. pol. traité {m} de Paris [1718] | Treaty of Paris [1718] [between the Regent of the Kingdom of France, Philip of Orléans, and the Duke of Lorraine, transferring ownership of lands in Grand Est and Saarland] | |
| agr. constr. occup. mécanicien {m} pour engins agricoles et de chantier | mechanic for agricultural and construction machinery technology | |
| hist. pol. Couronne {f} de fer | Iron Crown [reliquary and one of the oldest royal insignia of Christendom. A relic from the Kingdom of the Lombards, used for the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperors as Kings of Italy] | |
| fantoche {adj} | puppet [government, regime] [attr.] | |
| adm. fin. pol. Échiquier {m} [Royaume-Uni] | Exchequer [Br.] [government treasury] | |
| livre {m} blanc [rapport gouvernemental] | white paper [government report] | |
| hist. Philippe {m} II le Hardi [1342-1404] | Philip II the Bold [1342-1404] [Duke of Burgundy and founder of the Burgundian branch of the House of Valois] | |
| agr. constr. occup. mécanicienne {f} pour engins agricoles et de chantier | mechanic for agricultural and construction machinery technology [female] | |
| hist. cubiculaire {m} [fonctionnaire de rang élevé à Byzance] | [high-ranking government worker in Byzantium] | |
| occup. pol. secrétaire {f} d'État | junior minister [Br.] [female] [government official] | |
| occup. pol. secrétaire {m} d'État | junior minister [Br.] [male] [government official] | |
| hist. pol. ligue {f} du Bien public [1465] | League of the Public Weal [an alliance of feudal nobles organized in 1465 in defiance of the centralized authority of King Louis XI of France] | |
| provisoire {adj} | interim [government, measure, report, results, dividend etc.] | |
| hist. pol. Grand Privilège {m} des Pays de par-deçà [1477] | Great Privilege [an instrument signed by Mary of Burgundy in 1477, following death of her father at Battle of Nancy. It reconfirmed the rights of Flanders, Brabant, Hainaut, and Holland] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} des Deux-Roses | War of the Roses [series of civil wars in England between 1455 and 1487, when the House of Lancaster and the House of York fought for control of the throne of England] | |
| géogr. Petites Antilles {f.pl} [aussi : Petites Caraïbes] | Lesser Antilles [a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, most of which are part of an island arc between the Greater Antilles and the continent of South America] | |
| hist. pol. traité {m} d'Arras [1482] | Treaty of Arras [signed in 1482 by King Louis XI of France and Archduke Maximilian I of Habsburg, who agreed to marry his daughter, Archduchess Margaret of Austria, to the Dauphin of France] | |
| géogr. hist. pol. République {f} batave [1795-1806] | Batavian Republic [1795-1806] [successor to the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, becoming the first of the "sister-republics", and later part of the French Empire of Napoleon] | |
| hist. pol. Charles {m} IV le Bel [1294-1328] [aussi : Charles de la Marche] | Charles IV the Fair [1294-1328] [last king of the direct line of the House of Capet, King of France from 1322 to 1328] | |
| adm. occup. pol. Atelier et Chantier d'Insertion {noun} <ACI> | [French government organisation for re-integrating long-term unemployed back into society] | |
| hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Brétigny [1360] [traité de Calais] | Treaty of Brétigny [Treaty signed in 1360 between King Edward III of England and King John II of France, marking the end of the first phase of the 100 Years' War] | |
| archéo. hist. mil. butte {f} de Zuran | Žuráň [ancient burial tumulus, site of Napoleon's command HQ for the Battle of Austerlitz (since 2005, extraterritoriality of France)] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Abrittus [251] [aussi : bataille du forum Terebronii] | Battle of Abritus [251] [also: Battle of Forum Terebronii] [heavy defeat of Roman army by federation of Goths and Scyths] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. siège {m} de Québec [1759] | Battle of the Plains of Abraham [1759] [also: Battle of Quebec] [deciding moment in the conflict between France and Britain over the fate of New France, influencing the later creation of Canada] | |
| hist. la Reconquista {f} [la Reconquête] | The Reconquista [period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula between the Battle of Covadonga (718 or 722) and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in 1492] | |
| hist. mil. pol. siège {m} d'Alésia [52 av. J.-C.] | siege of Alesia [52 BC] [also: battle of Alesia] [Roman victory over confederation of Gallic tribes, completing the conquest of Gaul] | |
| hist. mil. pol. massacre {m} de Samothrace [1821] | massacre of Samothrace [1821] [mass murder and enslavement of the Greek population of the island of Samothrace] | |
| hist. mil. pol. traités {m.pl} de Tilsit [1807] | Treaties of Tilsit [1807] [2 agreements signed by Napoleon I of France ending the War of the 4th Coalition, with 1. Emperor Alexander I of Russia. 2. the King Of Prussia. Tilsit = Sovetsk] | |
| journée {f} internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l'Holocauste [le 27 janvier] | International Holocaust Remembrance Day [short for: International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust] | |
| hist. pol. traité {m} de Londres [1474] | Treaty of London [in 1474 Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, agreed to support King Edward IV of England militarily during an invasion of France] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} des Cévennes [1702-1710] [aussi : guerre des Camisards] | Cévennes War [1702-1710] [also: War of the Camisards] [uprising of Protestant peasants during the reign of Louis XIV] | |
| relig. évêque {m} de Winchester | Bishop of Winchester [diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester, one of the oldest and most important in England] | |
| hist. pol. maison {f} de Valois-Bourgogne [seconde maison de Bourgogne] | House of Valois-Burgundy [cadet branch of the House of Valois, ruling the Duchy of Burgundy from 1363 to 1482] | |
| géogr. hist. Galicie {f} | Galicia [once a crown land of Austria-Hungary, the nucleus of historic Galicia lies within the modern regions of western Ukraine] | |
| hist. pol. maison {f} de Croÿ | House of Croÿ [a family of European mediatised nobility, elevated to the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1594] | |
| hist. pol. traité {m} de Paris [1657] | Treaty of Paris [1657] [allied the English Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell with King Louis XIV of France against King Philip IV of Spain] | |
| hist. pol. traité {f} de Troyes [1420] | Treaty of Troyes [in 1420, after victory at Agincourt, Henry V of England signed the Treaty with the wife of the demential Charles VI of France, confirming Henry as King of England AND France] | |